Woman shot by her boyfriend while trying to break up fight

A 32-year-old Rosenberg man faces murder charges after shooting his girlfriend in the head and injuring another man this weekend, court records show.

Romelle Monte Hawkins was arrested Monday in connection with a shooting at 4 a.m. in the 8300 block of Synott near Bissonett Sunday, according to documents from the Harris County District Court. He is charged with the murder of his girlfriend Katherine Brownlow-Stewart, 41.

Witness Fallon Kiser told investigators that she and her boyfriend Jerold Griffin had an argument driving home, and she called her friend to pick her up at the location, court documents show.

Brownlow-Stewart agreed to help her friend and drove to the scene with her boyfriend Hawkins, who waited in his vehicle, the document states. When Hawkins and Brownlow-Stewart arrived on the scene, the couple was arguing in the middle of the street.

Brownlow-Stewart stood in the middle of the two and attempted to break up the fight between Kiser and Griffin when several gun shots rang out, the document states.

Kiser told investigators her friend fell to the ground with a bullet in her head, the document states. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Griffin was struck in his left shoulder and taken to an area hospital.